Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning to list heavily when the cruiser Pittsburgh finally succeeded in taking her in tow. At three knots the convoy started crawling away from the shores of Japan, the Franklin yawing and staggering in her agony. Men went to work to correct her 13° list. Hydraulic controls for counter-flooding were out, but Downes and his men put on rescue breathers and groped their way below to the hand valves. Gradually Big Ben regained an even keel...
Labor will counter with "full socialism," i.e., immediate nationalization of the chief industries, state control of employment, housing, agriculture, social security. Its program will be emphatically put across by the Attlee-Bevin-Morrison-Greenwood quadrumvirate...
...Counter-Attack (Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman; TIME, April...
...story concerns an eager young cavalryman who rides three days and nights to warn the Czarina of a conspiracy against her life. Although her placid chancellor, whose only function seems to be to ferret out such plots and counter-plots, has this one well in hand, Catherine is glad to see the breathless soldier; she decides he will look good in a creamy white uniform and promotes him to the rank of general...
...Counter-Attack (Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman; TIME, April...